First FreeNow and now Deliveroo. So much for European independence from US companies. It’s a wonder why these sales were approved in this climate.
StopDisinfo910 · 2h ago
Deliveroo is a UK company. It doesn't matter to the EU.
It's also very much non strategic so I don't see why it would be blocked either way.
Spivak · 3h ago
> We’ll cover more than 40 countries with a combined population of more than 1 billion people, enabling us to provide more local businesses with the tools and technology they need to thrive,” said Tony Xu, CEO and Co-founder of DoorDash.
This makes zero sense to me for a logistics company specializing in local to local deliveries. Being bigger in a given geographic area grants some benefits of scale and efficiency but being in Seattle and Bangkok there's really no difference than two separate apps. Just with the nature of the business you probably want this to be as local as possible so the profits aren't siphoned out of your community.
like_any_other · 2h ago
> Being bigger in a given geographic area grants some benefits of scale and efficiency
And dictating terms to local restaurants and delivery workers, with the threat of shutting them out of the largest market.
This makes zero sense to me for a logistics company specializing in local to local deliveries. Being bigger in a given geographic area grants some benefits of scale and efficiency but being in Seattle and Bangkok there's really no difference than two separate apps. Just with the nature of the business you probably want this to be as local as possible so the profits aren't siphoned out of your community.
And dictating terms to local restaurants and delivery workers, with the threat of shutting them out of the largest market.